VacationSelector

Paphos or Venice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PaphosVenice
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
PaphosVenice
Score7969
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km2720
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 1 points.1
PaphosVenice
Score4445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 50 points.50
PaphosVenice
Score2272
Museums within 10 km857
Museums within 2 km of centre345
Share of museums within 2 km %3879
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Venice leads by 5 points.5
PaphosVenice
Score3035
Drinking venues within 4 km224342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7289
Nightclubs within 4 km113
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 6 points.6
PaphosVenice
Score2317
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3370
Park area within 2 km27 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 15 points.15
PaphosVenice
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3072
Park area within 2 km27 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 64 points.64
PaphosVenice
Score1983
Notable places within 2 km12464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosVenice
Score7068
Price level global61.464.9
Daily budget€129€155
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 20 points.20
PaphosVenice
Score8666
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months82
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 113 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€110-159
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 26 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasurePaphosVenice
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m2 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosVenice
City population35,961250,369
People per km²1,987602
Museums within 10 km452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3646
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.